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Learning from Experience
Technology is a marvelous thing. And the many creative ways Jewish professionals have incorporated it into Jewish communal life is ...
Honest Jewish Outreach
Jewish Outreach is a buzz term nowadays. Every organization seeks to do outreach in order to demonstrate relevancy to its ...
Mock Jewish Divorce
It’s become almost a cliche program at American Jewish summer camps. The mock Jewish wedding teaches kids, through an interactive ...
A new face of interfaith marriage
In the past couple of weeks I’ve had some very interesting enquiries from couples seeking to be married by a ...
Reciprocal Receiving on Rosh Chodesh
The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760.I was studying at the Conservative ...
Hebrew By Design
Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...
Love Story: The Making of a Jewish Wedding
I prepared the bimah with two kiddush cups, a bottle of kosher wine and a glass wrapped in a white ...
Kaddish by Heart
The eldest son was chosen by his father to recite the Kaddish in his memory.Standing at the gravesite where his ...
Today I am a Woman
In the few months since our book was published, women of different ages have come up to us with stories ...
Delaying Bar Mitzvah Till Age 25
I run a pretty rockin’ Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah service. I’ve officiated at several hundred of these events. I’ve been ...